1) Keyrocks - did you see the gallery working? (You helped me with it in a different thread.)

2) You might take a look in a day or two - that's when I'll have the Moab / SLC galleries up....but other galleries are there now.

1) Yes, I did. I checked out your Jeep pics... hadn't looked at a 2005 before... that's nice... and the chick in the Jeep's nice too. I have a 1998 black Cherokee Sport... straight 4.0L 6-banger... getting a bit old now... ... the rocker panels are perforated with rust... ... the front drive axle U-joints are shot again (just changed 'em two eyars ago)... ... loose baffles in the muffler are rattling a bit loud... rusty brake lines... etc... but still a strong workhorse and easy to fix at home.

2) Let us know when you have the other galleries up.

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I like the header image ... a very David Lynch feel to it... Galleries seems to be working nicely. Feels like the overall site design needs a bit of work though (of course, taste is a personal thing, so take that comment fwiw.)

You might be talking about the dark image ('Me In Statues'). The header images rotate randomly, so each refresh of the page should give you a new image (unless the next image is randomly the same). All of the photos on the site were taken by me or someone else with my camera.

The design is purposefully lightweight (I'm a minimalist). I do plan to add thumb type images to articles and a few other minor design additions (going to experiment with the site title / tag line above the header image to free up one spot on the menu) - all of which will add a little flare.. just haven't gotten around to it yet (I do all the coding by hand).

The overall design goal is 'modern, optimized, lightweight, elegance', and has been for a long time.. One of the reasons I like sNews - it fits into my overall goals. (The OS, site, pictures, CMS, statistics, firewall, database and everything on my server is only 329MB.) I may be putting my music up at which point the lights in the site will be darks.

Anywho - thank you for the great compliment! I'm using your (FredK) no breadcrumbs on home mod too!! (Just as a side note, I'm adding credits to the about page soon, until a short while ago, I didn't have any other credits to put on there, and the page has been the same for a long time... )

There's one tweak left to go, a php back-to-top link that only shows after scrolling past a point on long pages. Other than that, it's has my 'in-article galleries' mod.. 'latest-article' on front page mod.. a counter I made that only counts index page hits.. a 'rotating image banner' that changes with every refresh (only one line of php).. and my 'no-match-captcha/anti-spam' mod. The whole thing is made to be as light weight as possible, with the most bang.

I'm curious what others think about the theme?

(I'm thinking about putting it in the themes section for others to use if they want - it would take some effort as some of the text is modified in snews.php and en.php for the theme. Not sure how to approach that if I did put it in the themes.)

I'm curious what others think about the theme?I'm thinking about putting it in the themes section for others to use if they want - it would take some effort as some of the text is modified in snews.php and en.php for the theme. Not sure how to approach that if I did put it in the themes.

It's a nice theme, easy on the eyes and not cluttered by unnecessary stuff.

If you decide to make it available as a theme to be used with a default sNews installation (not modified otherwise), then I would suggest you download the latest version of sNews (1.7.1), install it locally (if you have an localhost setup), get your new theme working with that by making the necessary changes in the snews.php file, then bundle it up, upload the ZIP to your domain (I put them in a dloads folder on mine) and point a link to it.

Ohhh... and provide some details in your post as well as to what was changed in snews.php and other files, sorta like a log o changes.

You could also make a common, searcheable, comment note in all locations in the snews.php file where the changes are (like - # Theme Mod Locator ), references on what was changed, etc. so that others would be able to use the file as a reference in copying the mods to a heavily-modded snews.php file to suit their own needs.

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